The Sun. — London, England, 1808-08-12 00:00:00

NAVAL NEWS. PLY MOUTH, . AUG; 10. Arfived the Durham, Transport belonging to the Expedition under Ge neral BU-11RARD, having on board 36 horses belong ing to the artillery, bound to Spaimand Portugal : She was run foul of by one 'of the Fleet (the Phcezzix West Indianian) off the Lizard, by which accident her stern was entirely stove in, and strrnnch damaged otherwise as to oblige her to put back to refit. One man was killed on board the West Indiaman. • • Sailed the Indefatigable, ,amethyst, and . Princess Charlotte Frigates on a cruize off the Coast of Spaib ; also the Naiad Frigate on a cruize to the'West. ward ; and Plover Sloop of 'War with- - Spanish prisoners for Spain. Sailed the Morristown Sloop of War with a Con voy for Wales. Arrived the Pompee, of 80 guns, from the Chan nel Fleet. PORTSMOUTH, Ano. I.—Yesterday arrived the l'ortuglie3e Ships Sun Domingo, from Bahia, and the Caridade from Bernambuco, in the Brazils. Siil6d this day the Fearless Gun-brig with a Con,. way for the Downs. . . DEA L , ATJG. 1 ; , =-Carne down from the lii the Tortoise Store-ship. • Arrived kis Majesty's Brig Flamer from a cruize, and retrains hi the DoWrils with the Ships as per last. F 41.14013714 .A.un.+JsT g. —Arrived this day the Aforning Star, W. 4.42.; with coma, sugar, S:c. from Plymouth, for Cadiz and Lisbon. Sailed his Majesty's Ship Bowie Cittlenne, of 20 glans, fix the Coast of France. The Ship Phoenix, Captain TAYLOiI; ft* Jamaica, ,put i 0 here yesterday by contrary wind, andd — some Indy damage, having ran foul of a Transport in the Expeditiou under General BVKAARD, which Ship . had also received considerable...damage. The whole Tleet, about 240 Sail of Transports, appeared off this Port last evening. Thi wind blowing strong at South, it was 'expeoted the whole would put inhere, but the wind shifting in the night to the Northward, they proceeded ; and as it has blown strong ail day from that quarter, they are, no doubt, quite clear of the Channel. Sailed this day the following Packets, with Mails of this month, viz. Princess Elizabeth, FORRRSDALE, for the Brazils ; Qeen Charlotte, MuDGE, for Ja maica ; Princess Augusta, Sr. AURYN, for Halifax and Nt w York ; Cartaret, PATERSON, for Cornn -113 ; Auckland, PARSONS, for Malta and Sicily. SHEERNESS, AUG. 10.—Sailed the Tortoise Store. Ship for Portsmouth. Went out of harbour to the Little Nore the Vuebec, of 32 guns, the Hon. Capt. POULETT. Sailed the Starling Gun-brig, Lieut. NAPIER, with Convoy for Gottenburgh. vEßroor., AUG. 9.—The Barton, Ponn, ar rived here on Thursday from' Barbadoes; sailed thence the 27th June; on 13th July„n9ke the Ahrterva, HA , GKIE, hence, to Boston, which had been chased that morning in lat. 41. 26. long. 43. 9, by a 'French Privateer, of 32 guns ; the Frenchman had mantled his boats to board the Minerva, but it came to blow, with thick weather, by which - she escaped. They saw the same Privateer the next =Horning from the Barton's mast head, bur by Capt. - I ' o lw being apprised of her by the Minerva, he stood away, and she gave chase, but it came on very thick Weather) and he lost sight of her. We 'have been favoured with the following Ex.-. trad cif a 'Letter from a Naval Officer on board his AlajestY's•Ship ln defatiga4k, to' his Father, in Liver pool, datod Channel Flee:, 3d August, 1808;•;-- since arrived with her prize in Plymouth Sound. " We have had. the good fortune to capture a French East Indianan, called the Diana, outward bound trout Bourdeaux to the Isle of France, bur ' then 480 tons, and richly laden.; one of the most valuable cargoes that ever sailed from France, con sisting of naval stores, gold lace, French lace, silks, iron and tin plate, copper sheathing and bolts, choice Vines, oil, &c. She would make a good Vessel for Your Liverpool merchants, as she mounts 22 guns, and has two spare ports ; flush tore and aft, a good hold, and sa il s we ll —every thing in her favour. She is just such a Sbip as I should like to command in the service. Most likely Goverbount• will buy Ler. de lan' haPPY to ,see the Spaniards have m a de such progr ess. We were off St. Andero the other theda y; they have routed the French completely from coast. T he Spanish b oats supp l y our Ships -withefvery produce of th e country, such as vegetables, &c. BnoNAPAaTE, from what is said by the prisonet's taken in the _Diana, is in Bourdeaux, wait ing to march 200,000 men to Bayonne. Coffee and sugar is ss. per pound there; so they have threaten e`' onr little island with, the effects of al hlockade to some purpose." Early yesterday morning several workmen sur prised a young woman standing in the water, evi d( tidy with intention to 'destroy herself; near Kew B'itlge• On their approach she plunged out of siz; t,' but she was iminediately taken out and con ed to her friencli, who keep a public house at 1. -littor‘l. it appears that the poor_ girl is pregnant. LORD tON's DINNER- . , ,Tli`friends of Lord MILTON have thought pro per to publish an account of the Dinner that took place on Friday last at York, in honour of Nobleman's return as one of the Members. fol - the County. The Chair was taken by W.. 1. -DENISON; who, as High Sheriff for the County, might yea . sonably have been expected to endeavour to give the „Meeting a friendly, social, and convivial charac ter, rather than to introduce such topics, as, though likely to be acceptable to the persons present, only tended elsewhere to revive party differences and thoSe heart-burnings which had so much dis turbed the County. Indeed the Chairman commenced his speech with a declaration that he should " indulge N I no observations calculated to revive those animo sities to which the Eleaion gave birth," and ex pressed his hopes that they were " buried in eter nal oblivion ;" but be soon. forgot .this promised 1 moderation, and observed, that the company had " met to celebrate the triumph of reason, toleration, and liberality, over bigotry, fanaticism, and intole rance ;" besides characterizing the sentiments of the opposite party by " the war-whoop of No Popery." Such was the forbearance of the Chairman, after the promise be had made. Could he suppose that when the friends of Government heard of this mode of describing them, that they would not feel a Sense of indignation likely to revive those animosities which he " trusted" were." buried in eternal oblivion." But this is not all, for this friend of moderation accused his Majesty's Ministers of having, " to gra , tify their ambition, thrown the torch of religious dis cord into the Country, and of having appealed to the dark passions of the unthinking multitude." This extraordinary specimen of political liberality seems to have been borrowed from Nir.WmanAm,who accus ed Mr. Fox of having been a pander to the bad pas sions of the multitude," though that same Mr. WINDHAM afterwards formed an alliance with that " pander," and insulted the memory of Mr. PITT, when his venerable remains were hardly cold. But the Chairman was not content with touch- ing upon public subjekts in these moderate terms, for he proceeded to drag in Dr. DUIGENAN and the Chancellor of the Exchequer, to manifest still -far ther his disposition to practice the forbearance he had promised. The rest of his speech was made up chiefly of compliments to Lord MILTON, whom, however, he declared he was reluctant to mention, lest what he, said might " look like flattery." But as a proof of his reluCtance to flatter his Lordship, he said, " he was confident -the Nobility of this Kingdom would find the brightest jewel of their coronets in the loVe and affeetion gaiped, increased, and insured, by treading in . the footsteps, and fol lowing the example of Lord MILTON." This is a pretty good specimen of a repugnance to adulation„ and of resped to the great body ot the British Nobility; whom he holds so deficient in know ledge of the true,principles of action in public and private, that they ought to follow as their model the condo& of a young man who has hardly passed his minori!y, and who has been hitherto only knoWn to the public by his attachment to a party, and the vio lence with which he has commenced his political ca , reer in supporting the principles of that party. Tile rest of the proceedings at this meeting are hardly worth notice. Lord MILTON i indeed, fa, voured - the ,company with a very long. speech, in which, like the Chairman, he anxiously avoided all topics calculated ‘f to revive the animosities to which the eletaion gave birth," by all the hackneyed abuse which has been poured upon Ministers on account of the Danish Expedition, the Orders in Council, and other trite topics. But there is one declaration of his Lordship which deserves some attention, be cause he has been held forth by the Cbairm,in, who 'hates every thing that may " look like flattery," as an example for " the Nobility of this kingdom." Adverting to the administration ot the public mo ney, he said, according to the printed report of his speech, that " the Court (mind Reader, h the Court," not the Ministry), seemed unwilling, extraordina rily unwilling, to concede any thing to the people." Much as we have heard of the warmth, to use the most favourable term,,of Lord MILTON'S poli ticalconduet,we should not have expected such an un guarded refleation as this to pass his lips ; and if he, indeed, is fit to be an example to the Mobility of this Kingdom, to procure them the love and affedion of the people, he cannot, judging from this declaration, hold forth an example to them in exciting the love and affection of the people towards .the British Court. Lieutenant-General Sir HARRY BURRARD, who has the command of the Expedition to Spain and Portugal, at his first entering the army, in 177 ti, held a Commission in the Sixtieth, or Royal Arne ricans, in which regiment he served seven years : he was thence promoted to Major in the Fourteenth Foot. In these regiments he siiw much adual ser vice in ,America and the West Indies. In 178 g; he exchanged into the First Regiment of Foot Guards, of which he is now the Lieutenant-Colonel. Since that pariod he served under the Duke of YORK. in Flanders, and at Ostend, where he was taken pri soner; he was the second in command under Major- General CoFr.c. He had a brigade in Holland, wiiere he acquired great reputation ; and in the late Expedition to Copenhagen was appointed second in command under Lord CATHCART. He is univer sally beloved by the Officers and men who have served under him, and there is not a more brave, intelligent, and meritorious Officer in his Majesty's service. The young man who was shot on Sunday last at Lansdown Revel, by Mr. Campbell, died on Wed nesday morning, near Bath. Mr. C. has been since committed to the county gaol at Shepton Mallet. SMITHFIELD MARKET, Auc. This day's market had a pretty good supply of different kinds of Cattle ; Beef and Veal are cheaper than our last report ; Mutton is dearer; Pork and Lamb support last prices, add the trade for the most part was not over brisk. The sales in the 1-1-ay market were inconsiderable.; Hay and Clover have fallen in price since Monday's market; Straw ob tained a better price. —We subjoin a correct state ment of the prices and numbers : To sink the Offal per stone of Sib. Beef 4s. od. to ss. od.—Mutton 4s. od. to S. 4d.—Veal ss. od. to 6s. Bd.—Lamb ss. od. to 7s. od.—Pork ss. od. to 64. Bd. BeastS, 6so.—Sheep and Lambs, 9,soo.—Calves, 350. — Pigs, 400. Hay 51. 55. od. to 61. tos. od.—Ciover 61, os. od. tio 7 1 . los. Qd.—Straw LI. t6s. od. to - 41. 4. od. 42V OCC.AIONAL /i:DbAESS, - Written and Spoken by Mr. FA uLmtztt, on the OPe:ling of Scarborongh Theatre, Monday, Angtr,st the tit,,, Oin2, for the Benefit of the Sailors belonging to that town, now Prisoners of War. . To this, blest Isle, where Liberty atßi e Could safely fix her happy, envied throne, This precious stone, set in the silver sea, This dear, dear land," that ever will be free ; The milder virtues, owe their sacred birth, And every noble trait of manly worth. In " Neptune's Park" the edifice of Fame High rears her head, and many a Briton's name, - Lodg'd irt her achives, to remotest time . Shall be the wonder of each age and clime ! Oh, glorious boast ! —While Usurpation reign'd, And Europe bow'd submissive and enchain'd ; While all th' .horizon heavily did lour, Big with the storm of fierce tyrannic power ; Like her own oak, Bit ITA IN the tempest brav'd, And bade each State no longer be enslay'd At length they rouse, and eager to regain Her native rights; stands foremost noble Spain ; By Britain aided, and by her inspir'd, Each Spaniard's breast with liberty is fir'd ! May every nation catch the sacred flame, " And citizen and soldier prove the same." In vain the " ruffian hordes" may then advance - In vain the.threats of slavery and France; The. Patriot glow their elfZ)rt shall withstand, The surest safeguard of each injur'd land! • Europe triumphant ! war at length shall cease, And surrance change to happiness and peace. Then those who now by tyranny immur'd, Who dauntless dangers and distress endued, In prisons pent, oppress'd with want and woe, Their preservation to your boanty owe ; Whose cause to-night most earnestly we plead, Shall thank you for the charitable deed ; Tell how you sooth'd thit sad and dreary lot, And piliv'd no Briton eyer is fergot ; Crateful, o'er seas and climes your .faine extend, Whose proudest title is—The Sailors' Friend. The ilfricans, as we predited, will amply indem nify the Theatre for • the high price of the Copy right and the great expence that must have attended its preparation.—YouNo, FAWCETT, and LisTobr, are under great obligations to the Author, notwith standing the reputation which they possess, for the opportunity which he has afforded them to display to uncommon advantage their respeolive talents. On Monday the Bristol Theatre closed for the sea son, with the Inconstant. Mr. arkfMrs. C. KEMBLE performed the charglers of Mirabel and Bizarre, in their usual style of excellence, to a numerous and genteel audience. After the Comedy Mr. CHAR L TON addressed the audience, in 'a neat and sensible speech, on the part of the managers and Company, expressive of their feelings and gratitude for the coun tenance and support with which they had been ho noured during the treason. - • LEGAL McnERATIoN.—It has been stated in a Morning Paper, that a Barrister has been sent to Coventry for taking silver fees ! If this be true, he should have made the same defence the facetious Irish Barrister, Counsellor COSTELLO,' made to liis brethren on a charge c.d, die same kind :—" My dew . . fellows, what.would you have me do 9 I took all the man had." It has been whimsically said that the Barrister who accepted Silvei fres is probably a Crown Lawyer. Another action for Critic. Con. is likely soon to come betbre the public. The parlies area Sheriff's Officer against a ci-devant Attorney, .and 'lately a particular friend of the injured .husband. The discovery took place'at an Inn I:ear.Ware, btu no entreaty could, prevail on the Lady to return to the arms of her dis consolate' husband. What - is rather singular, he has since received a letter of condolence from the guilty party, entreating him to keep the matter a profound secret, arid to bury in oblivion what has passed, in o fessing services of' friendship hereafter, &c. - The gallant in a late crim. con. cause has, it is said, taken a house for the Lady at Parthn's Green. This may 'be Considered as some advance towards the Church. „ EXTRACT OF A: LETTER FROM AN OFFICER OF ONE OF THE BRITISH SQUADRON, DATED OFF CORUNNA, THE 3D INST. " Official advices are just received here of the en tire defeat of General DUPONT ; his army, of 12,000 men, surrendered unconditionally ; and a body of 8000 marching to his assistance, were nearly surrounded, but capitulated on terms, viz. to be sent to France by sea, and not to serve for a stipulated time. Yesterday, the Jun ta at Coruntia gave a most splendid entertainment to the Honourable Admiral Ds Couacev, and, a number of Officers of the Squadron ; the dinnerlwas splendid in the highest dikgee., This defeat of DurosT will give the Spa nish army leisure for other purposes of annoyance to the French, who are universally execrated by all ranks of people. God grant the brave fellows sue, cess! They all appear in high spirits, and the gene ral cry is Viva El Roy d'Angleterra et Ferdinand Vii. . Corunna was illuminated in consequence of the defeat of DUPONT, and surrender of his army." SWEDISH PAPERS. By the Stockholm Gazette, of the 25th July, it ap pears from a report, signed KLINGSPOR, and dated New Carleby, the 9th of July, that the Swedes have taken Wain, and that Field Marshal KLINGSPOR had dispatched to that town Major General AMENOFF to take the command, as Field Marshal KLINGSPOR was expecting an attack on his left wing, where he thought his presence necessary for the present. In the Gazette of the 22d July,. is mentioned in a report to the KING, from Mr. C. J. THORNTON, Com mander of the Ship Frederic, dated Kasko, July 8, that he had taken possession of Kasko, and that the Russian Major-General COUVI ORLOW DENISOFF, who had his head-quarters at Christranstad, had been obliged to retreat after a severe battle, in which the Swedes gained the advantage : one hundred and ten of the Emperor's own Life Cossacks were,. he sides others, made prisoners. The Russians on their first taking possession of Kasko, had, by means of sabres and pistols, forced the inhabitants to take the oath of allegiance to the Emperor—all of them, except Mr. BLADH, late Supercargo in the Honour able the Swedes East India CoMpany, did so, but he protested, and said he would rather die than a(:t iGaiast ins beloved Kin and Country. HOMPCIRCUI ', 4IAIDSTONE, KENT, WEDNESDAY, AUG. 10. CKOWri SIDE. Thorun„Lawley, Mias Boaz Itikizei; and Privne, were - inditied for hnrglarioosly and entering the dwelling-house of Charlestirury, at Crayford, in tnis.county, and stealing / articles to the amount of between 5 and 6001. Charles Drury, .the prosecUtor, stated,. that he kept a tailor and draper'S4iop at Crayford, and that on the .Bth of February Fait he fastened up his house as usual, and saw his Stock all Sa?.e in the shop ; when he - go: up the next morning, he found thrit a hole had been broken through the wall of his house, large enough•to 'admit the body of a man, and- the whole of his stock had been carried away-during the night He apprehends it must have. been carried away by a cart, as it was more than couid:b.! conve niently carried away by hand. He kn e w no thi ng o f the prisoners, and had never recovered the stoien goods, but Griffiths, the Police Officer, bad pro duced him two waistcoats, one .of which he could identify, and -the other,- he believed, was tnaie tip from a piece of the stuff stolen from his shop. The waistc4. its being she wn him, he identified one, which was a scarlet one, and the other, he said, was a piece too small to make a waistcoat in the usual way, but it had been patched and piecod tozether, and was evidently made up by a woman: Some pieces of shawls were also she WOtri m, and t,e said- he Nerily believed they werecut -off from other pieces, which he prodUced, of the same quality and textuic-L • John Griffiths,. the - Police. Officer,- proved his having found the articles produced the lodgings of the Prisoners, in Horseshoe-alley, Petticoat 7 lane, on the 15th of March last. The Jury found the man Guilty, a d Brovae, the woman, Not Guilty. CIVIL SIDE. THE KING V. WATSON. Mr. Serjeant ONSLOW stated, that this was a pro-. secution against the Defendant for sending a chal lenge to Alexander Stuart, Esq. a Gentlenian of high rank, who had served in the army, was a relative of Lord Bute, and nearly allied to the gallant General of that,narite, who had gathered so much honour on the plains of Maida. After' the Learned Serjeant . had dwelt with great force on the destruCtive con sequences and.the miseries introduced in families by the praCtice_of duelling, and represented the present .as a most aggravated case, he called his w.itnesses, when it turned out to be a parish squabble. Mr. Watson and his party of friends, at a Vestry Meet= ing for the garish of Greenwich, proposed, a.poor's rate of 6s. Bd. in the pound. Mr. Stuart and his friends proposed one of ss. 4d. Mr. Watson was a carpenter and builder, and accused Mr. Stuart of preventing the tradesmen from having their bills paid. Mr. Stuart replied - that they were &veil paid, and added, that some of them could build new houes at the parish expence. Mr. W. considered this as a reflthion upon him, as he had just built a new house; upon which he called Mr. S, a Frenchi fee/ sou of a •-, shook his fist in his face, and said he would not strike hitn in the church, but be would waitfor - him at the door, and then ic he would cut leis head off." Mr. GURNEY; for the Defendant, treated the whole with ridicule, arid thought it too coutempti ble to be brought into a Court of Justice. The Jury found the Defendant guilty of an assaul, and the Court fined him On ruesdav the ,annual -Boat-race of Deptford took place ; when six young watermen of that town exerted themselves With great skill and dexterity, for aquatic pre-eminence; and after three well-contest ed heats, which lasted till a late hour in the even ing, the prize, a very handsome wherry, was ad judged to a young man of the name of Brown, amid the noisy acclarnationS of the surrounding multitud e . The vialor was then towed backward and for Ward, in the front of the town, and was .escorted froni . „ thence to a tavern - , where the remainder of the even ing was spent in mirth and jollity. There are now growing within 300 yards of the old Gothic ruins.Of •Fountains' Abbey, three miles from Rippon,, in:Yterskshire, seven very large yew trees, generally called the Seven Sisters, whose ex ,a6t- ages cannot be accurately learnt, though it has been handed • down' from father to son t hat •these seven yews were standing in the year 1088. And it is said, that when the Great Fountains' Abbey was building, the masons used ,to • work their stones, during the hot summers, under the shade of these trees. This stupendous ancient building is 790 feet long, and was finished in 1283. The circumfer ence of the Seven Sisters, when measured by a cu rious traveller, were of the following sizes:---"Tie smallest tree, • round its body, five yards twelve inches; four others are from five yards and a half-to seven yards and a half ; the sixth is nine yards and a half ; and, the seventh is eleven yards and ninettn inches in circumference, being two yards and tt.n inches larger than the great yew-tree now growing in the Church-yard at Grashird, in North Wales, which is nine yards nine inches. These trees are the largest and oldest growing in the British domi nions. A Morning Paper states, that Sir J. PIERS, who has been so long an exile from Ireland, in conse quence of the verdid against him for seducing Lady CLONCURRY, has committed suicide in the I , le of Man, which has been some time the place of his retreat. The cause of this unfortunate man's catas trophe is of a most melancholy nature. He had de bauched, the daughter of a respetlable clergyman, who, on discovering his disgrace, instantly shot himself; and it . Wa;"upon hearing of this that Sir J. PIERS put an eridlo big existence by shooting him self throagh the head. The Unhappy female is in a state ofdistradion that threatens her life.- SCOTCH LAW ARRANGEMENTS.—=The LORD PRE.. SIDENT of iti6•o6 . lirt of Session in Scotland is to be . succeeded' fby-, ildinOtt BLAIR, ES+ Dean of the Fa calty of Advocates. ~4t is supposed MATTHEW Ross, ES(I. will succeed BLAtti, as Dean of Faculty.—, -It is further stated," that .1.01 : "4 ,, ,QUN SLN NAN resigns. both his gowns, and is to be sucCeded as a Lord of Justiciary by Lord HERATAND, and as a Lord of Ses sion by ..A.licit. CAMPBELL, E,q. younger, of Suc coth. We have not heard who iti to replace ,`1 r. C A M as one of the Counii:ssari , ..'i of Edinburgh- , i